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In India, many dogs don’t eat meat. They either grow up in vegetarian households or they hang around temples where only vegetarian food  is available.
 However, it is said that of you take one of these dogs and give it meat for a week, it can never go back to  a vegeterian diet. Metaphorically speaking, this [...]

By Niraj Chandra
This is a first-hand account of what happens before, during and after Carotid surgery, written from a patient’s point of view.
There are plenty of web-sites that describe the procedure  but most of this material is  written from a medical perspective and doesnt really describe what a patient goes  through. This account, it  is hoped, will give some [...]

It is early December and the tourist season should be in full swing but not much is happening in this village in Goa.
 
Everyone is heavily in debt. Lucky, a rich Russian tourist arrives at a local hotel in this village.
 
He asks for a room, puts a $20 note on the reception counter, takes a [...]

Unscrupulous companies have perfected the art of ripping-off the unwary consumer. These are not just the fly-by-night operators; many large corporations practise this art and they are getting  really good at it.
The trick, apparently, is to gouge the customer for small amounts but with a large number of  transactions. This way, the individual amounts go almost unnoticed but [...]

Reason 1: More Incentives, Lower Costs
Ontario has  planned a great incentive program that should become law very soon. For each unit (kilowatt-hour) of  solar power that you produce you would be paid over 80 cents. For each unit of power you consume you pay far less, probably just 10% of this.  This magic is achieved using Feed In [...]

They may not be the best thing since sliced bread but they are pretty close, at least in the field of renewable energy. The Feed In Tariff s (FITs) have worked wonders in many European countries including Germany, which is now the second largest producer of solar energy in the world.

 
“I am not a big fan of public-private partnerships” says Gary Corbett, acting President of PIPSC, one of the largest public sector unions in the country.  He believes this type of unequal partnership is sometimes ineffective because the ultimate responsibility  for the work remains with the government.
He cites the example of a road contructed under a  public-private [...]